Word: factionalized
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...been one of the responsible voices in the anguishing struggle touched off in East Boston by school integration: for example, in this week's Phoenix there is a story about a fight for control of an important community school council in East Boston in which the ROAR faction was defeated by a more responsible group. The person who defeated ROAR's effort to take control of the council was Ms. DeFronzo, who was elected chairperson of the council over the ROAR candidate, and Congressman Udall is proud to have her on his slate. Barney Frank State Rep., 5th District
Independence has been an emotional cause for more than a century. In Puerto Rico's universities, among older intellectuals and even within a faction of the ruling party, various shades of independentista sentiment persist. Alfonso Valdes Jr., a prosperous businessman and former Chamber of Commerce president, sighs and says: "Independence is very close to my heart. It is a romantic idea and deep down, emotionally, most Puerto Ricans feel sympathy for it. But it is impractical for as long as we can see. It just would not work." Adds Alex Maldonado, editor of the pro-Commonwealth El Mundo...
...recent Izvestia article calling for a coalition of "all patriotic forces" in Angola. Shrugged a Washington Kremlin watcher: "That kind of talk is cheap." British policymakers said the Soviet involvement in Angola has been the subject of debate in the Politburo for the past three weeks. One faction, led by Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko and Premier Aleksei Kosygin, has argued that the M.P.L.A. will have a hard task subduing UNITA, which has the support of some 2 million Ovimbundu, the country's largest tribe. In Whitehall's view, this group is winning over the faction led by Party...
...have a grip on the yakuza, the Japanese equivalent of the Mafia; politicians have been known to wince at the mention of his name. Idaho Democrat Frank Church, chairman of the Senate subcommittee, charged last week that Kodama is "a prominent leader of the ultra-right-wing militarist political faction in Japan. We have had a foreign policy of the United States Government which has vigorously opposed this political line in Japan and a Lockheed foreign policy which has helped keep it alive...
...Most notably, Moynihan reported that Somalia's Abdulrahim Farah, an Assistant Secretary General of the U.N., had agreed that U.S. threats of reduced foreign aid were an effective means of influencing African nations to refrain from endorsing the Soviet-backed faction in Angola...